LastCraft.com has a new posting today with a few choice comments about how this whole comment spammers issue is being handled - including the plan developed by Google to help stop them.

In competition with each other to promote sales of Viagra, or to get people hooked on gambling, various crooked characters deface public sites with gay abandon. They leave a trail of links pointing at their own sites, often with Chinese titles, all to boost their own PageRank. All to climb Google.

These comment spammers are not nice people.

OK, it's not just Google to blame here, but all of the search engines. It's just that Google's system is the most well known and this has historically made it the main spam target. In a tacit acknowledgement of this, Google have decided to help the bloggers. Er...sort of.

He goes on in his post, talking more about how the new "standard" (rel=nofollow) really doesn't do much damage to the spammers. It does, however, help out the weblog owner themselves, helping to strip out some of the comment spam that might come in. But, it's not enough according to LastCraft, and an alternate solution os offered, something of a "SpamBack" possibility...